The evening world., 1887-10-19
fession west Of the Mississippi River. Four
years later Underhill came TO this city.

fession west Of the Mississippi River. Four
years later Underhill cam TO this city.
The stenogrnphers Of that period were OK
them tfSeSi's We're ". " vaughn, now SSS'' he stenog.
| rapher of the First District Court John
Mutually, we'll known as a Journalist and
politician Col. Ethan Allen. the lawyer;
Martin Mcmahon and a Mr.. Leach. There
was also a young man named Weir who made
fair reports for the daily press. as did also A.
+. Warburton.
Underhill, who is the Nestor of the profess
sion in this city, and now the stenographer of
the Surrogate's Court, retired from the press
in 1860, having, during that year, in con.
junction with David Dudley Field, secured
the passage of IN amendment to the Code of
Procedure, by which, in the courts of record
in tho city of New York, stenographers were
made officers of the court, and he is recog.
nized as the father of the system of official
extended over the entire State and is now an
established institution throughout the Union.
Later laws were passed which authorized the
appointment of stenographers for the Marine
now tho ~City-Court, tho District courts,
the Court of Special Sessions and the Police
courts in this city.
The greatest demand for this sort Of SER
vice is made by corporations, lawyers and
business houses, for the carrying on OF cor
Many of the older members Of the profess
sion have died in the harness, generally from
overwork. Others have succumbed to the
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become lawyers or statesmen or gone into
other pursuits less irksome and more con-
genial.
Many who are now practising law have been
admitted to the bar, and those who have spent
years in recording the trials of causes are bet
ter posted rs to law than many of the attor-
neys whose words they wrote.
The stenographers of this city have an asso-
citation numbering about $50 members, with
headquarters on Twenty-third street, near
Seventh avenue.
Said an old disciple of Pittman the other
day while II cannot be claimed that stem
ography is hereditary, 1t seems to run in
families, like a wooden leg: There are q
half-dczen, more or less, of Bonynges, all
experts; i. +. Underhill has a wife and q
daughter, to say nothing of other relatives of
fcient in their profession; there are at least
two Warburtons. The history of shorthand
writing is replete with instances, where
families have taken to stenography like
ducks to water"
Among other New York stenographers en-
inent in their profession. besides those
already mentioned, are the Bonynges, Robert
and William; Fred M. Adams, Edmund L.
Davis, Charles P; Young, Charles b. Collar,
who was one Of the House of Representative
newspaper corps as early as 1851; James b.
Sheridan, afterward elected Judge of the
Marine Court; James E. Munson, author of a
presentation of Pittman's system, which is
largely practised; Albert Cochran. William
Anderson, who began his career with Fowler
& Wells, the phrenologists; George r. Bish-
op, of the Stock Exchange; Frederick
Meakin, whose first possession was that of a
clergyman; Wayland Turner, an English
Parliamentary reporter Leopold Woodle,
A. W. Casweil; Charles L. Guy and F.. J.
Warburton, of the City Courts Edward b.
Dickinson stenographer of the Democratic
State Committee James H. Fish, of the
United States District : Attorneys Office
Geo. G. Appel, Ernst @. Kieb, d. O.McEwen,
Bart. Moynahan Henry A. Playton, who
writes and speaks English, French and Hol-
land Dutch Frank McBennett, another lin
guistic reporter, and Frank A. Pollard.